Improved cherry-stoner



lihttrd glatte @sind i @trinite Letters Patent No. 102,021, lated April 19, 1870.

IMPRovED CHERRY-STQNER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent; and making part o the same.

To all lwhom. lit may concern:

Be it known that I, J ONAH MARCHANT, of Farmington,-in the county' of Fulton, in the State' of Illinois, have invente-dia new and useful Machine called a Cherry-Stoner; and. do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specication, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which lFigure 1 represents a perspective view of the cherry-stou'er.

Figure 2, a sectional elevation.

Figure 3, a plan of the bed of the machine.

Figure 4, plan of the machine. y

The nature of my invention consists in supplying cherries to vertical punches, or a punch, by .means of a series of comitersnnk peribrations in which the cherries rest, arranged around a horizontal circular rotating plate, which latter is moved by means of a shatt and winch, with dogs on the shaft, so arranged as to strike the sides ofthe holes under them, or other equivalent means of moving the plate. lhe same shaft, also, by means of a crank, operates the punches, which latter are set in a cross-head, which slides on a guide risingvertically from the bed of the machine.

A represents the hedf of the cherry-stoner, which has a circular hollow or bed for the reception oi' a plate of the same shape, represented at B. This plate B is described. hereafter.

The bed A has openings, o o, beneath or in that part of its bed which is under the rotating plate B, for the escape of the stoned7 cherries; and, also, smaller openings, pp, in that part of the bed7 beneath the punches, and corresponding to them, throu gli which thelstones are expelled from the fruit hy the punches. f

' A clamp,fm,. and screw, 11,'at end of the bed A, are a means for fastening the same conveniently to a ltable.

B is a horizontal plate or ring, having, at intervals around its margin, counter-sunk pexibra-tions, a al c, 8:0., about the size of a cherry, all lying in a circular groove forming the. margin ofthe plate or ring in question.. This groove is for the purpose ofthe more readily conducting the cherries into the countersunk holes a a a, &o.

O`is ahopper, either attached to the base of the upright guide D, or to the bcdA.

The bottom ot' the hopper opens by 'a curved delivery onto the plate B, said curved opening being an arc of the same curve as that of the plate B, so as to expose, for the reception of cherries,- three or four of the holes a a a, including those holes which happen to be under the punches b b.

D is a vertical guide set in the bed A, and on which slides the cross-head e which carries the upper ends 'of the punch or punches b b, the lower ends of each of the latter passing through and guided by the guide-plate (l, immediately over the corresponding cherry-stone holes p p in the bed-plate A.

A horizontal shaft, li., has a bearing in the base of the guide D, the outer end of which shaft terminates in a crank, g, which is connected by a rod, f, with the cross-head c which carries the punches b l).

rlhe other end of the shaft h has a bearing, lr, on the other side of the bed A, where a winch, lr, is used to turn it. countersunk holes a. a circulate in the plate A, a double dog, t i, is fastened to the shaft h, each of 'said' dogs being extended low enough to strike the side of each hole a, so as to-rotate the plate B when the shaft is turned. Other means for rotating the plate B may be used, such as rack and pinion, &c. 'lhe crank 'g has a sutiicient radius as will allow a cherry to pass into the hole beneath each punch when the crank is raised, and also-allow the punches to pass far enough do\ vnward to expel each stone.

The operation of this machine is as follows:

The handle lt being rotated, either to the right or left, causes each of t-he dogs vi i', in their revolutions, to strike the side of a separate' hole, a, in the plate B, thus rotating the latter, and causing the deposit of a cherry or cherries at each impulse of the dogs under the punchor punches,while the crank g, on the other end of the shaft l1, is raising the punches for a new blow. lhe stones are expelled through the lower or bedfplate B through the holes p p, the stoned cherries being carried forward in their respective holes a a a by the rotation of the plate B, until the latter brin them over the larger holes o o in the bed-plate A, through which they fall into a proper receptacle.

What l claim as my invention isl. Feeding the punch 'or punches of a cherry-stoner l by means ot' a4 horizontal rotating plate, B, having counter-sunk pertbrations, a (l a, &c., around its periphery, situated in an annular groove, ic, said countersunk perfor-ations carrying the cherries under the punch or punches, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. The bed77 A with its perforations pp and o o, when applied as stated, as and for the purposes described. Y

3. In combination with the above parts, the punches b b, when carried in the crosshead e, the' cross-head e, its guide, D, punch-guide ll, clamp m and screw, shaft h, with its dogs li t or equivalentsv for rotating the plate B, winch l:, crank g, connecting-rod f, and hopper C. Y

ln testimony that I claim the foregoing cherrystoner,I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of March, 1870.

JONAH MAROHANT.

Witnesses:

EDWARD Hannon', Hnsnr S'roay.

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